Comanche warrior

Cheyenne Dog Soldier, 1840. The Dog Soldiers were the Cheyenne Elite, they formed their own bands within the Cheyenne Nation, they often gave their own...

Last great chief of the North American Comanche indian tribe Quanah Parker sits and poses for a photograph with one of his eight wives after his capture, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, June 22, 1875. Parker,...

The Comanche are a proud people, not unlike other tribes of Native Americans. What separates the Comanche, though, from other nations is their meteoric rise to power because of the horse. No other …

Photograph of a Comanche Warrior, Moohie Tatsah. He is wearing a traditional suit of his tribe.

The Comanche were one of the first tribes to acquire the horse from the Spanish, through trade and raiding. They considered the horse a relative and a great gift from the Creator.Today the image of Indians on horseback is iconic. But Native Americans never set eyes on a horse before the 1400s when Europeans brought them to the New World as a weapon of conquest. The Comanche and other native peoples adapted the horse as a powerful ally in the fight to protect their land and way of life. The…

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"From the time we are born, we hit the earth -- we're warriors."- Jay Redhawk, Comanche expert. The Comanche, the born-in-the-saddle killers, who terrorized the 18th-Century American plains; vs. the Mongol, the vicious Asian horse warriors who used brute savagery to conquer more territory in the 13th century then any empire in history Circa 1840 Height - 5' 9" Weight - 150 lbs Armor - Buffalo Hide Shield & Bone Armor (Hairpipe Breastplate) Symbol - Arrowhead (the Comanche used the Bow and…

The Comanches were a Native American tribe who lived in North America’s Great Plains region, which included sections of modern-day Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming. The Comanches were a formidable Plains tribe famed for their superb riding, hunting abilities, and warrior culture. During their history, the Comanche people were led by a ... Read more

Sketch of a late XVIIth century comanche cavalryman, sporting armor of leather with glued sand. Made of folded deerskin for the horse and buffalo hide for the man, the armor set was said to have been impervious to the stone and steel arrows of his enemies. It was with this kit that the Comanche and their Shoshone bretheren (from whom they had split only a few decades earlier) expanded into the central plains, waging war against local natives, some of whom had yet to encounter horses or horse…

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